In US you can watch on Hulu, or purchase via Amazon Video, but it doesn’t come free w/ Amazon Prime
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Netflix mob show is good. Astonishing what happened to Rudy. He was a legit great prosecutor.
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Palm Springs so good… so good.
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Gets better every time. I turned it off the first time without knowing there was a mid credits scene.
Almost all of Adam Sandler’s Netflix movies have been Not Good, but The Do Over is good for what it is. David Spade is good in this and The Wrong Missy.
Eta: thar will teach me to review before the climax
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So my wife and I are working on showing our 12.5 year old some classics from the nineties once a day. Recently we have done The Matrix and Groundhog Day.
What are some of your favorites. Only qualifiers is that they have to be from the 90s, Suitable for a late tween/early teen (especially in regards to nudity/sexual content) and good. Obv, if it is streaming somewhere that’s even better.
You think the matrix was fine for him? My oldest is 11.5.
Outside of some philosophical horror, it’s really not all that bad. Watching it again, I’m shocked it got an R rating. It’s relatively bloodless, and aside from the scene where he turns into a mirror/wakes up in the goo, theres nothing super overtly scary. There are a few bad words here and there, but tame for an R rated movie. I guess the most R rated thing about it is some of the intense action scenes, but that’s kind of the whole point of the movie.
Oddly enough it reminds me of another R rated Keaunu flick, Speed. Like… why is that movie rated R? There is 0 sex/nudity. A couple bad words, and also almost entirely bloodless.
Compare Speed or the Matrix to something like John Wick, and it’s like comparing The Care Bears to Hellraiser.
90s ratings were weird.
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Really you’re saying please god avoid any scene where it’s uncomfortable to watch with your parents.
Titanic (don’t care what anyone says, this is a good movie, the effects are amazing and the story is good)
The Firm
The Truman Show
The Fugitive
Babe
Groundhog Day
Office Space
Three Kings (violence is not terrible, but there’s one sex scene where Clooney bangs a reporter that would be a tough ten seconds to watch with your daughter, no nudity though. Oh and come to think of it I guess Marky Mark gets a car battery connected to his junk? Been a while since I’ve seen it.)
Wayne’s World
Speed
Lion King
Galaxy Quest
Shawshank Redemption
Apollo 13
Happy Gilmore
Good Will Hunting
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (I know it misses the 90s cut by a few months, but it’s awesome)
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Great movie and very underappreciated, but kind of heavy for a 12 year old, I think.
I second Galaxy Quest, and I’d add Pleasantville.
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The Austin Powers movies seem like they’d fit the bill too.
Feel like I would have gone nuts for the LOTR movies as a teenager. I’m pretty in to them as a grown-ass man.
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Shawshank for a 12 year old seems iffy.
My sister was that age during the 90s and I remember she liked(bear in mind she had crushes on Brendan Fraser and Christian Bale):
What About Bob
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones Last Crusade
Encino Man
School Ties
Newsies
Swing Kids
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I can think of at least a dozen jokes in Austin Powers 1 I’d cringe at watching with a 12 year old.
Sounds like a winner!
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All the “racy” jokes seemed very juvenile and tame to me. Exactly the sort of thing I would have found hilarious at that age.
idk, I don’t have kids so maybe I’m missing the mark.
I’m thinking about it. I guess it depends on a kid’s sensitivity for sure. Or the parents’ 
I’m on board as long as Matt agrees to pause and watch MI2 before showing Austin Powers: Goldmember or this scene won’t be nearly as funny as it’s supposed to be.
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I wouldn’t want to watch Austin Powers with my parents but I think it’s fine on their own.
I don’t have kids tho
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In addition to racy humor, a lot of Austin Powers’s humor is directed toward my parents’ generation. Kids aren’t going to know what to do with a Burt Bacharach cameo. Dad thought it was fantastic.
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You would deprive a child of a chance to LOL Olds?